{"id":8614,"date":"2023-03-24T13:28:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T13:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reinforcedearth.ca\/?page_id=8614"},"modified":"2023-05-26T20:36:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T20:36:02","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.reinforcedearth.ca\/about\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:3%;--awb-padding-right:10%;--awb-padding-left:10%;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-background-color:#eaeaea;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p>A French engineer&#8217;s invention in 1963 developed a new composite material using earth as a raw material, which spawned the development of a company with offices across five continents in just a few decades. Easy-to-use Reinforced Earth\u00ae mechanically stabilized earth retaining wall technology quickly took hold as an ideal reinforced backfill solution in an array of applications in many market sectors. The technology&#8217;s inventor and Reinforced Earth\u00ae founder, Henri Vidal, transformed his revolutionary idea to become an entrepreneurial breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>Reinforced Earth Company Ltd. (RECo), the Canadian company established in April 1970, was the first commercially registered Reinforced Earth company in the world and is a subsidiary of the Terre Armee and Soletanche Freyssinet Group. We are a leader in the design and supply of proprietary mechanically stabilized earth retaining wall systems. Our experience is proven in major highway, mining, and infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p>RECo first started its activities in Quebec, where projects were successfully and repeatedly proven for the Ministry of Transportation Quebec (MTQ) on various highways across the province such as Highways 132, 440, 185, 15, 440, and 138. Other applications included projects for the St. Joseph Oratory in Montreal, for Hydro Quebec at Manic Dam and James Bay.<\/p>\n<p>RECo&#8217;s westward service commenced in 1978, obtaining formal approvals from various Ministries of Transportation in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. Significant mechanically stabilized earth retaining wall structures were built in the early 1980&#8217;s on projects such as the Burlington Skyway, Kananaskis Highway, Trans-Canada Highway at Banff, Norquay, Vermillion, and Jasper, as well as on Vancouver Island at Duncan. Other unique Reinforced Earth\u00ae projects were built in industrial applications for a 45,000-tonne Obed Marsh coal storage facility for Union Oil up to 30 meters in height using sloped-panel technology, and large urban applications for the Ottawa Transit Way and LRT in Calgary during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>RECo continued to receive confidence from various transportation authorities in the mid 1980&#8217;s where 59 projects were built in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec between 1994 and 1996. Over 235,000 square meters of numerous Reinforced Earth\u00ae structures including bridge abutments were used on major highways such as the 115 km Coquihalla Highway, the 25 km Sea to Sky Highway 99 reconstruction in B.C. and the 30 km of coastal Route 132 in the Gasp\u00e9 Peninsula in Quebec. RECo&#8217;s\u00a0industrial technologies were also introduced to large load supported truck dump projects in 1984 for Syncrude Canada Ltd. at Fort McMurray, while Edmonton Power selected RECo and successfully completed a 45,000-tonne coal storage project at Genesee.<\/p>\n<p>RECo during the last five decades served our coast to coast Canadian customers with a diversified portfolio and more innovative technologies with TerraTrel, TechSpan precast arches, and Underwater Walls. RECo&#8217;s consistent ability and competitiveness are also evident by our participation across Canada in well known major projects, from the Vancouver Island Highway in B.C., the Syncrude, and Suncor works at the North Mine, Steepbank, and Millennium sites in Alberta, to the Highway 407 and LBPIA projects in Toronto, Ontario and the Highway 104 works in Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1970, Reinforced Earth Company Ltd. (Canada) has served numerous satisfied and repeat clients and has completed thousands of successful projects with a face area of over 1.7 million square meters of RECo structures from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland. In 2005 RECo Canada expanded its geographical territory to include the islands of the Caribbean too.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-section-separator section-separator triangle fusion-section-separator-1\" style=\"--awb-border-bottom:0px solid #e7e4e2;--awb-spacer-height:0px;--awb-svg-margin-left:0;--awb-svg-margin-right:0;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;\"><div class=\"fusion-section-separator-svg\"><div class=\"divider-candy-arrow bottom\" style=\"top:0px;border-top-color: #eaeaea;\"><\/div><div class=\"divider-candy bottom\" style=\"bottom:-20px;border-bottom:1px solid #e7e4e2;border-left:1px solid #e7e4e2;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-section-separator-spacer\"><div class=\"fusion-section-separator-spacer-height\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-margin-bottom:50px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:-20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 sep-underline sep-solid fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-text-color:#444444;--awb-margin-top:35px;--awb-sep-color:#9b9c9e;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:22;--minFontSize:22;line-height:1.14;\">OUR HISTORY<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":20265,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8614","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mechanically Stabilized Earth Retaining Wall History | RECo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Reinforced Earth Company invented the mechanically stabilized earth retaining wall. 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